Raystown Lake near Huntingdon, PA - 01563100

Important information about this monitoring location

Reservoir is formed by earthfill dam with a gated spillway in right abutment at elevation 768.6 ft (capacity, 383,500 acre-ft), and an ungated spillway separate from embankment at elevation 812.0 ft (capacity, 762,000 acre-ft). Storage began November 1972. Conservation pool elevation is 786.0 ft, capacity 514,000 acre-ft. Lake is used for flood control, low-flow augmentation, and recreation. The 15-minute precipitation data for this station are temporary and will only be displayed for 120 days. Time series of 1-hour or cumulative daily values will NOT be available for retrieval following the 120-day display period. Although the instrumentation is calibrated at least once a year, the temporary classification means that documented routine inspections and other quality assurance measures are not performed that would make the data acceptable for archival, retrieval, or future use in general scientific or interpretive studies.

Location details and information

Metadata Element	Location Metadata	Metadata Code
Agency	U.S. Geological Survey	USGS
Site identification number	01563100	_n/a
Site name	Raystown Lake near Huntingdon, PA	_n/a
Site type	Lake, Reservoir, Impoundment	LK
DMS latitude	402606	_n/a
DMS longitude	0780025	_n/a
Decimal latitude	40.4350748	_n/a
Decimal longitude	-78.0066697	_n/a
Latitude-longitude method	Interpolated from MAP.	M
Latitude-longitude accuracy	Accurate to + or - 1 sec.	S
Latitude-longitude datum	North American Datum of 1927	NAD27
Decimal Latitude-longitude datum	North American Datum of 1983	NAD83
District	Pennsylvania	42
State	Pennsylvania	42
County	Huntingdon County	061
Country	US	_n/a
Land net location description		_n/a
Name of location map	HUNTINGDON	_n/a
Scale of location map	24000	_n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface		_n/a
Method altitude determined		_n/a
Altitude accuracy		_n/a
Altitude datum		_n/a
Subbasin hydrologic unit	Raystown	02050303
Drainage basin		_n/a
Topographic setting		_n/a
Flags for instruments at site	NNNNYNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN	_n/a
Date of first construction		_n/a
Date site established or inventoried	19721101	_n/a
Drainage area	959 square miles	_n/a
Contributing drainage area		_n/a
Time Zone abbreviation	EST	_n/a
Site honors Daylight Saving Time	Y	_n/a
Data reliability		_n/a
Data-other GW files	NNNNNNNN	_n/a
National aquifer		_n/a
Local aquifer		_n/a
Local aquifer type		_n/a
Well depth		_n/a
Hole depth		_n/a
Source of depth data		_n/a
Project number	20100	_n/a

Operated in cooperation with:

US Army Corps of Engineers - Baltimore District